Stepping in, waving arms in the air until everyone has my attention. Good.

We all had our laughs and all, but we best stop here feeding the troll being accusatory to each other. We don't flame bait, to then flame back when the other party has taken the bait and answered. Doing so makes you no better than the trolls you want the other party to be. Internet trolls come in all sizes, ages, colours, countries, identities, IQs, EQs. They're present on these forums as much as they are present answering under (political) reports on your favourite newspaper's website, or any place they feel the need to turn your attention in a different direction.

But it's over now. For the next 4 weeks you're all going to be amiable to one and all. The dark days are over, it's going to be a hot week this next week with temps soaring to over 30C (86F) next weekend. Too hot for me to be keeping an eye on anything you say, I don't plan on being much at home then. Certainly not looking over the forums all day and night to see if all the adults in this and other threads can behave themselves, and not so easily be baited.

You can also stop with the accusatory private messages and demanding post reports. That's all over, in the least for the next 4 weeks.

Talking about internet trolls, I've decided that when Knut comes back with his solaris account (the 25th), he can stay. For now. Perhaps that he has to go again when he's doing the spamming again. We'll see.

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The dark days are over, it's going to be a hot week this next week with temps soaring to over 30C (86F) next weekend.

Enjoy your cool week, last weekend is was 40C (104F) in the shade. Time to set the crunch boxes to throttle back to summer mode.

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Time to set the crunch boxes to throttle back to summer mode.

Sposed to get " warm " here to 30c possible , think it's time to get the small fans blowing over the machines internals then if it gets to warm set Tthrottle to do it's thing to keep the temps sorta sensible here , worst comes to the worst and shut em down during the warmest part of the day .

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I'm running it on my old Huawei G700 phone, on 3 of the 4 cores. The first GUPPI it had took a whopping 158,000 seconds! It's chewing on a second GUPPI VLAR as I type, also going to take long. But at least it's nowhere near hot, the CPU isn't constantly under load while since it's on the loader with the battery 100% full, the battery isn't getting that hot either. Win win.

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Seti Website down, haven't checked anything else. Only just finished first brew.

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And 5 mins later it's back up.

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Extreme slowdown. But better than yesterday when everything (including these forums, and the UCB Systems site) were just not there at all.

Edit: Having said that, looks like they're gone again. Or being DDoS'ed.
Edit2: and back. But cannot answer to this person, reply button doesn't work. Looks like bad trouble with the database server.

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I haven't tried any replies recently, but I've not noticed any significant slowdowns with accessing either the website or the data servers. Some glitches, sure, but they normally clear within a minute or two: nothing like the extended issues that people keep reporting here.

I suspect that network routing issues are at least as significant as internal problems when it comes to accessing Berkeley. And it's probably going to get worse - did anyone notice

FCC votes to overturn net neutrality rules

a couple of days ago? it'll take a long time for that to have any visible effect, but it's coming.

I haven't tried any replies recently, but I've not noticed any significant slowdowns with accessing either the website or the data servers. Some glitches, sure, but they normally clear within a minute or two: nothing like the extended issues that people keep reporting here.

I have to agree with that, I see people complaining, but I have not noticed anything really wrong.

Down for maintenance now.

Yup she's down, a nice early start.

I haven't tried any replies recently, but I've not noticed any significant slowdowns with accessing either the website or the data servers.

It would seem it's getting worse. I now can't reach many other websites either, or they only half load. Changed my DNS setup from Google (both on the router and in Windows) to the ones provided by my provider, hasn't helped. Threw away my resolver cache, renewed it, hasn't helped.

Now pages that half loaded before don't load at all. Might be my cable as everything loads blindingly fast via WiFi.

Edit: the problem seems to be with my provider's DNS, as overriding locally to Google DNS has everything load fast.

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Every time I look at a small-town or regional newspaper website - whether for my own local area in the north of England, or following a news link that somebody has posted on a message board - it seems to have the same panel of "promoted stories" towards the bottom of the home page, sometimes with "recommended" or even "recommended for you" added.

It seems to be a global syndication service for clickbait. Sometimes (like this one) it's 'too good to be true' financial offers (= advertising), sometimes it's weird photo-stories with no obvious purpose (= fake news). I avoid both types unless I'm very, very, very, bored.

As we all know Yahoo, don't give a fig about anything except money, just as bad as M$.

Don't forget these: - Pubs, supermarkets, local shops, petrol stations, trains, buses, airlines, media - broadcast & print, artists, studios, actors, actresses, etc etc etc.

Unless you come up with a better solution, money makes the world go round :-)

Bitcoins!!!

I've got some of them, the filthy blighters. Not sure though whether it was a human or an animal that bit the coins :-)

This site can’t be reached

einstein.phys.uwm.edu took too long to respond

Einstein seems to be down

This site can’t be reached

einstein.phys.uwm.edu took too long to respond

Einstein seems to be down

Yep, Einstein is down. :-(

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Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join Calm Chaos
Pluto is still a planet

Where is the hue and cry from our resident pessimist that Einstein needs to move to a different better place?

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Yep, Einstein is down. :-(

E@H is now up.

Back from lunch and


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SETI is down for the weekly outrage

Given that the servers now reside in the data centre which is a few miles from the lab it is highly probable that the whole process can be done remotely - even if it means someone rolling over in bed to launch it. There's bound to be stuff that can be run as a cron job before anyone crawls out of their pit.
These things include stopping users connecting to the database, shutting down the database driven stuff, swapping to the "holding page", starting the backup process. These probably don't need any human input, thus can be run automatically. So when the staff arrive things are well advanced for them to do the stuff that needs human interactions.